Hi,
I'm implementing some new GNU make functions as loadable modules and I just
wondered if anyone had thoughts about how it would be best to implement
some of them.
The one I'm looking at now is meant to be a way to add integers.
My major use would be to e.g. implement a counter so I'm mostly t
On Sat Oct 31 19:25:40 2015, tnmur...@gmail.com (Tim Murphy) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm implementing some new GNU make functions as loadable modules and I just
> wondered if anyone had thoughts about how it would be best to implement
> some of them.
[...]
> As I was implementing this, however, I thoug
Tim Murphy writes:
> Hi,
>
> I'm implementing some new GNU make functions as loadable modules and I just
> wondered if anyone had thoughts about how it would be best to implement
> some of them.
>
> The one I'm looking at now is meant to be a way to add integers.
>
> My major use would
On 31 Oct 2015 8:10 p.m., "Reinier Post" wrote:
>
> On Sat Oct 31 19:25:40 2015, tnmur...@gmail.com (Tim Murphy) wrote:
> > $(add 1 2 3 -1 1)
>
> I like this, to me it seems to fit more naturally with existing
> functions. As the name I would use 'sum': 'add' suggests only
> twp arguments and s
On 31 Oct 2015 9:02 p.m., wrote:
>
> Tim Murphy writes:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm implementing some new GNU make functions ...
> Perhaps your question is generalized about functions, but in case you
> are planning to implementat arithmetic, please know that the Gnu Make
> Standard Library (so name
On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 19:02 +, Tim Murphy wrote:
> 1) The return value must be allocated by the function, after which
> make copies it into a buffer and deallocates it. [...] It seems as if
> it would be much better to expose GNU make's variable buffer interface
> and cut out the extra memory a
